This annotated version of the 1889 Peak Directory is part of my research connected to the writing of The Silver Bowl.Sharon Oddie Brown. January 30, 2014.Updated February 7, 2014 - contributions thanks to Annelise Connell.

Other sources include The Hong Kong Bank in Late Imperial
China 1864-1902. Frank H.H. King, Cambridge University Press, 1987; Forgotten
Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery. Patricia Lim Hong Kong
University Press.2011.

The names in the cells shaded in green have full
biographies included in Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Ed. May
Holdsworth & Christopher Munn. Hong Kong University Press. 2012.

Cells shaded in yellow represent contributions by Annelise
Connell, a Hong Kong researcher with an interest in The Peak. There are more
to come.

Other sources include The Hong Kong Bank in Late Imperial
China 1864-1902. Frank H.H. King, Cambridge University Press, 1987; Forgotten
Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery. Patricia Lim Hong Kong
University Press.2011.

The names in the cells shaded in green have full
biographies included in Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. Ed. May
Holdsworth & Christopher Munn. Hong Kong University Press. 2012.

Cells shaded in yellow represent contributions by Annelise
Connell, a Hong Kong researcher with an interest in The Peak. There are more
to come.

James Dyer Ball, married in 1885 to Gertrude Smith, and the
household (Fernside) included Gertrude's brother, T. Serecombe Smith
(unmarried), and Dyer Ball's mother - all of them Canton missionary
families. (Fernside later was included in Matilda Hospital)

Bell-Irving,
John Hon (summer only) (1846-1925) He was a son of Mary JARDINE niece of
William JARDINE, a founder of Jardine Matheson & Co. He arrived in Hong
Kong in 1872. He married Isabella Thornton, a niece of Williamina MacKENZIE
(wife of Colonial Secretary, William MARSH)

·Jardine Matheson

·Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce – Vice Chairman

·City Hall Committee

·Steward Hong Kong Jockey Club

·Committee: Hongkong Public School, St. Paul’s College.

·Hon. Treasurer: Diocesan Home and Orphanage, Bonham Rd.

·Justice of the Peace.

·President: Polo Club

·Director: Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd.

·Chairman: China Sugar Refining Co.

·Legislative Council – one of 6 unofficial members.

·Consulting Committee: Douglas Steamship Co.

·Director: Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-Boat Co. Ltd, 7
Queens Ave

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Bowdler, E.

·Justice of the Peace.

Fungshui

Edward Bowdler - assistant surveyor general
for 24 years. Best remembered as the special engineer of the Praya
Reclamation Works. Arrived in Hong Kong from Mauritius in Sep 1874.
Retired and then immediately joined LegCo and Exco. Died in 1907.In
1919 Mrs. Bowdler was living at Creggan. She died in 1924.

1889

Dalrymple, Henry Liston (1845-1900) NOTE He was also a
founding member of the Golf Club. See: His
gravestone.

·Who’s
Who in the Far East 1906. DENNYS, Henry Lardner (HONG- KONG),
Solicitor and Notary Public; b. Hampshire, 1852. Admitted as a solicitor of
the Supreme Court of Hongkong, Jan. 1874 ; Secretary, Librarian and Curator
of the City Hall, Hongkong, 1877 to 1900 ; Crown Solicitor, 1896 to 1900 ;
Solicitor of H.B.M. Supreme Court in China and Japan ; Foreign Member of the
Chartered Institute of Patent Agents. Address: Hongkong ; Surbiton, Surrey.

Brockhurst

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Dennys, Henry Lardner
"But it was when Annie Dennys, wife of solicitor Henry Lardner Dennys,
had a baby on 21 July 1889 and did not recover that Mabel Cantile really put
herself out. (there were 3 children under six, and the baby survived.
They were all sent back to England right away)

·NOTE: History
of The Peak Hotel: … in 1875, N.J. Ede had build a house named Dunheved
on the property.[2] In 1881, Alexander Findlay Smith, a Scottish former railway man, had
petitioned for the right to introduce a funicular railway to Hong Kong. The Peak Tram was built and began operations in 1888. About the same time, Findlay Smith
bought Dunheved from Ede, and opened it as the Peak Hotel. (Ede and
his family moved next door.) After the Peak Tram opened, Findlay Smith
quickly put the Peak Hotel on the market.

·In 1877 he and his wife and child left for Liverpool from
Yokohama. Japan
Daily Mail.

Francis,
John Joseph NOTE: He was from Dublin, a Roman Catholic, and supporter of
Governor Hennessy. He had served in the Royal Artillery in his 20s, and then
bought himself out of the army and remained in Hong Kong. In 1889 he had a
terrace of three houses built at Magazine Gap. They came to be called
Magdalen Terrace.

·Liquidator, Chinese Insurance Co., Queens Rd. (NOTE: The
Company was in liquidation)

·Director Masonic Club: Icehouse Lane

·President: Hongkong Musical Club

·Justice of the Peace.

C.M.S. Sanatorium

Samuel John Gowerhttp://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Gower/6000000024656514940
He was a son of the British Consul, and born 1825 in Livorno Italy. At
age 25 went to California for the Gold Rush in 1850 and started an auction
house in San Francisco in partnership with T.J. Poulterer of Sonoma.
Brought a few dozen paintings of "merit" to sell, many of which got
burned in the great fire of 1951. He became the Austrian consul there, was
considered part of the elite, an early member of the Bohemian Club, a
gentleman of the most agreeable manners and person—accomplished in music,
languages, literature and mercantile affairs. https://archive.org/stream/menmemoriesofsan00barr#page/25/mode/1up/search/gowerThree Gower brothers in Japan. A. J. Gower, became a UK Consul
in Japan and about the same time S.J took over Jardine's Yokohama
office in 1862. A third brother came over as a mining engineer a few years
later.
Sam. was a freemason
In 1873 he married his old partner Poulterer's daughter in San Francisco.

Hastings & Co. enjoys a rich history dating back to the early years of
Hong Kong's development as a leading international trade, finance and
commercial centre.John Hastings (from whom the name of the firm is derived) was admitted
as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England on 22nd May
1885. He became the 45th solicitor to join the Roll of Proctors, Attorneys
and Solicitors practising in Hong Kong when he was admitted on 10th November
1886 shortly after his arrival in the territory.
In 1887, he joined the partnership of Wotton and Deacon and became the senior
partner of Deacon & Hastings in 1897.
He ventured out on his own on 1st January 1904 as Hastings, John, Solicitor,
Conveyancer, Proctor, Notary Public, Patent and Trade Mark Agent. In 1906,
George Andrew Hastings, a solicitor and notary public, joined the firm.
By January 1907, the partnership became Hastings & Hastings.
John Hastings was one of the seven subscribers to the Articles of Association
of the Law Society of Hong Kong on 19th March 1907 and retired 4 years later.

·Mary OSBORN had two husbands. The father of Louisa Antoinette
de St. FELIX was Louis Thomas Bergoughon de St. FELIX. After he died, she
married John DALY.

·Their grand-daughter, Emily DALY (?-1878), married Villiers
William Caesar HAWKINS (1824-1909), and they were the parents of Villiers
Alweyn Caesar HAWKINS.

·Thomas JACKSON and Amelia Lydia DARE used the St. Felix name as
a middle name for their youngest daughter, Dorothy St. Felix JACKSON. Her
birth was a year before the death of Louisa Antoinette de St. FELIX
(1822-1888).

·(Sharp, Johnson & Stokes) solicitor, Supreme Court House.
NOTE: the firm Johnson Stokes
and Master was established in HK in 1863 when HK had less than a dozen
practicing lawyers. In 1895, JOHNSON became a senior partner. At that time,
JSM was already legal advisor to HSBC. Sharp Toller & Johnson mentioned in The
Law List for Hongkong 1881. He served his clerkship in London with MEssrs
Tillard, Son, Godden and Holme 1867. Born abt 1844, son of Robert &
Sarah JOHNSON in Surrey, England.

·(Butterfield and Swire) merchant, Hongkong, Beaconsfield NOTE:
a D.H. Mackintosh (absent) was an assistant at HSBC Queens St. in 1889 (17
years with HSBC in Tientsin) while a Lacland Mackintosh was a clerk in HK
with HSBC, one of the eastern staff recruited in HK in 1866, the same year as
Thomas Jackson.

·Director: Sailors’ Home, West Point NOTE: HSBC were treasurers)

·Justice of the Peace

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Mitchell-Innes, N.G.

·Justice of the Peace.

·Assistant Registrar General

·NOTE: Norman Gilbert Mitchell-Innes (1859-1913) served as
Colonial Secretary 1891-1896. In the 1887 Directory, the residence was misspelled
as Bangone.

Sharp, Granville. (1824-1899) He and his wife Matilda
Lincolne were amongst the first families to live on The Peak. They had no
children, and he left the bulk of his estate to build a hospital in his
wife’s name. She wasn’t listed as being here with her husband, but this is
unlikely